Worst Audio Injury !!

03-09-2021 11:05am@jccampbellii,

Yes, the dreaded delay is one of the worst things about back injuries.

You can go to bed feeling fine totally unsuspecting the spinal locking up that can happen 24 or even 48 hours later.

Sometimes this will be accompanied by chronic pain in your lower back or legs together with an awful cold sweat as your body takes over in a primal way to prevent you doing any further damage to yourself.

I find that pulling in my stomach muscles can offer some protection before lifting the odd 25kg bag of potatoes or moving the 35kg Tannoy Berkeley.

Yep--nothing like it.  Even to this day my back will "lock up" if I spent too long bending...
A heating pad on for 20 minutes is one of the best things...I have even read that it is recommended by doctors as the best, to help the back.  About 25 years ago I got smart and bought a 2 wheeled moving cart...I use it for anything with heft--this includes stacking my stereo and moving it all at once, rather than several small trips.  Moving several smaller things (again, bending) can be as brutal to me as one heavy lift.  Now, I lift with my cart, gravity and leverage and not my back!

None i use body armor when i handle stereo stuff.

I thought we all had people who do that sort of thing, "Oh Geevs"..... would you be so kind to move that speaker a tad to the right?🧐

Besides the usual back pain from moving speakers and power amps, I had an unusual experience with static zapping..  I had a pair of focal 1038’s several years ago. I was bending down in front of the speaker To pick something up and as my ear came close to the dome tweeter, I heard a loud noise and a sharp pain in my ear as My static buildup found a path to ground. Hurt like heck and was loud, wish I had a picture of the arc. My DAC shutdown instantly, once restarted all was well. A very strange painful incident.
I now have a grounding probe That I keep on the rack so I can ground myself before doing anything near the stereo.

@mikem,

Rubber soles and certain acrylic fabric clothing often get me mildly zapped, but never like that.